Last weekend, I went to Trent to check out the Buonoconsiglio Castle. In one of the towers is a very famous fresco of an early 15th Century snowball fight. :-) It's easy to understand why they'd depict snow given the location. It's high up in the Alps. The picture above is looking out from the castle towards the mountains.
The castle itself. It's actually even bigger than it looks here. It was a maze to get through but there were a lot of neat paintings and artifacts through out. I'll post some of them here and give a link to the rest of my photos in the last part of this series of blog posts.
The castle was owned by the prince-bishops of Trento which, during the 13th-16th Century, was part of the Holy Roman Empire. However, due to how close it is to both Milan and Venice, you see a lot of influences from those places as well. It's an interesting mix of artwork and styles.
The above courtyard ended up being really neat. The ceiling of the "loggia" is a series of Frescos by Gerolamo Romanio. He was a painter through the first half of the 16th Century known mostly in the Venetian (Veneto) region. The paintings in the loggia are all pretty clearly 1520's/1530's Venetian.
Looking to the left
Looking to the right
Towards the hall where the staircase is
The lady in the forefront is wearing a golden hued dress with a pinked, high neckline. Really, that isn't her chemise or partlet. If you click on the image, you can see the button to the collar of the dress and tell that it's all part of the dress. She's wearing a more German style hat although the sleeves and overall impression of the gown is much more Venetian.
This one, I couldn't get a good image of. The lady somewhat towards the center left is wearing a green dress, a balzo, and has her chemise sleeves rolled up. All of which is typical Italian. However, the lady on the far left, has a typical Venetian gown with a more German style hat.
A slightly better picture of the lady with the German hat.
A bigger image of the lady with the balzo and green dress.
The lute players appear almost fantastical with the feathers and flowing gowns. However, this too is a mix of the German and Italian styles. The lady has a more German neckline while the dress, overall, is more Venetian in style.
Judith in her maid is another very common theme in Renaissance paintings. The maid's dress is in keeping with the 1530s Venetian styles but Judith's dress is interesting. It opens at the front and has lacing but the sleeves and the cut appear almost Turkish. Judith is wearing what appears to be cloth of gold as well and her head covering appears almost Flemish or English.
This lady was hidden on the way up the staircase. Her pinked white dress is typical 1520'sVenetian in cut. You can see green through the pinking that matches her German style hat. Her chemise is not the usual gathered neckline with most Venetians. It's very smooth, meaning it was probably cut in a more Flemish/English/French manner.
I couldn't get a good photo of the gentleman in the green outfit. He has a gathered neckline which did come back briefly in the 1530's.
This is the hallway next to the staircase. It was pretty magnificent on it's own.
Even with the guys, you see the mix of German and Italian influence. The gentleman closest to us has a German style hat with some elements of Venetian influence in his doublet. The man hiding in the background with the red hat is actually typically of the Veneto area.
The stairwell down
Above one of the doors before the stairwell
I love her sleeves. Yes, it's probably not what was really worn but the dags!!!
Blurry photo of the stairwell
I wanted to get a photo of the lady above them as well.
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